Jo Frost

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Jo Frost
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Frost in 2009
Born
Joanne Frost

(1970-06-27) 27 June 1970 (age 53)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Occupations
Years active1989–present (nanny)
2004–present (TV personality)
Known for Supernanny and related shows
Spouse
Darrin Jackson
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(m. 2016)​
Website www.jofrost.com

Joanne Frost (born 27 June 1970) is an English television personality, nanny, and author. She is best known for the reality television programme Supernanny UK , in which she was the central figure. The show first aired in the United Kingdom in 2004 and she has branched off into several other reality shows in the United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands. Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost addressed issues such as addiction and abuse. Family Matters is a talk show. She has written six books on child care.

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Early life

Joanne Frost was born on 27 June 1970 in London, England. [1] She grew up with one brother [2] in Southwest London. [3] [4] Her father was an English builder and her mother, born in Gibraltar, was an interior decorator. Frost had a happy, physically active childhood. Because her father was interested in history, she frequently visited a number of castles and museums as a child. Frost's mother died of breast cancer [5] when Frost was 24. [6]

Career

Nanny

Frost worked as a nanny for over 30 years, beginning in 1989, when she was 18 years of age. [3] [7] She was employed in the United Kingdom and the United States [8] and Frost's clients included celebrities such as John Lloyd, a television producer. [3]

Television

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Frost filming at the Children's Museum in Easton, Massachusetts, U.S. in 2009

Frost was hired for the Channel 4's [3] Supernanny television show that launched in the United Kingdom in 2004. In each episode she visited a family and implemented consistent disciplinary, behavioral, and entertainment techniques to improve troubled families' lives. [3] In their book Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Children and Adolescents, Michel Hersen and David Reitman state, "With considerable skill, Super Nanny Jo Frost implements standard, evidence-based contingency management procedures, as well as heavy evidence of creating alternative positive activity structures." [9] The show has had its critics, and not all child-care experts agree with her approach. [3] [7] Some people find that the children's right to privacy has been violated [10] and that children are embarrassed when put on the "naughty step". [11] Newcastle University media and cultural-studies lecturer Tracey Jensen believes that the format results in the mother being "shamed before she is transformed". [10]

The show, viewed by six million people in its first year, was an "instant success." Shows were created in 48 countries by 2014 that were tailored after Supernanny. [3] [7] The UK show ran six seasons. [12] The United States version aired on ABC. [2] Like the UK version, the American Supernanny was also a success and garnered Frost invitations to Late Show with David Letterman , The Oprah Winfrey Show , and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . [3] In 2011, Frost quit Supernanny, and Deborah Tillman, who ran a group of play schools, was hired as her replacement for the United States show.[ citation needed ]

Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance aired in the UK for Channel 4 beginning in 2010. [13] It had an issue-based format, with limited home visits. [14] Family S.O.S. with Jo Frost premiered 28 May 2013, on TLC in the United States with a 90-minute episode. Supernanny focused on discipline issues, but Family S.O.S. tackled serious, complex issues, such as blended families, addiction, abuse, and marital problems in family's homes. [15] TV critic Hank Stuever commented, "For all its noise and uncomfy moments, Family S.O.S. is relatively genuine stuff, especially for the current incarnation of TLC. Viewers who know Frost's previous work will have no trouble believing that she cares about the outcome and sincerely wants to help these families patch things up." [15] Frost was one of the executive producers for the show. [16]

Beginning 18 April 2014, she hosted the talk show Family Matters for ITV. Prior to the show, families underwent taped interviews about the nature of their difficulties, to be addressed during the talk show. [17] The show relied on Frost's intuition and experience to resolve difficult situations, sometimes dealing with parents more directly than she may have done in other shows. [4] Over time, Frost has softened her image, including stopping her common gesture of pointing her finger at people, and stopped wearing severe suits, both of which had been iconic during her time on Supernanny.[ citation needed ] Twofour Broadcast planned in July 2014 for a new UK show with Frost that would "help to restore harmony and balance to their family life" over the course of a family retreat. [8]

A twenty-episode season of Supernanny [18] premiered on 1 January 2020, eight years after the ABC version finished. [19]

In 2020 Frost was announced as the star of Australian program The Parent Jury. [20] However, due to restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was unable to travel for filming and the show proceeded without her. [21]

Advocacy

Frost is an advocate for the United Nations Foundation's Shot@Life movement, which aims to decrease vaccine-preventable childhood diseases and deaths. [22] [23] In March 2015, she visited legislators at Capitol Hill to show her support for the movement. [22] Frost operates a blog to promote vaccination of children and is one of the celebrities that has shown her support for #Givingtuesday, the International Day of Giving. [24]

Personal life

In 1994, her mother died of cancer. [3] Frost, who regularly travels for work, lived with her father when she was not taping or meeting other career obligations. [3] [7] As of 2014, she is living with her husband, location coordinator Darrin Jackson, in Orange County, California. [4] [7]

She speaks on parental and familial issues. Frost also is an active supporter for those who live with anaphylaxis [25] and life-threatening allergies, and is the 2014 ambassador for FARE (Food, Allergy, Research and Education) [25] [26] and an activist for children of neglect and poverty.

Works

Programmes

Books

See also

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